Amasyalıdır. Amasyalı Gevikzâde Mahmûd Paşa’nın mahdûmudur. Pederi çavuşbaşılıkdan Cezâ’ir beylerbeyi olduğundan “Paşazâde” demekle işhâr etdi. İstanbul’da sudûrdan Erzincânî Müftüzâde Ali Efendi’den tahsîl-i ulûm ederek 1106’da müderris oldu.
Hayli müddet tedrîs-i ulûm edib medâris-i ilmiyyeyi devretdikden sonra 1127 rebiülevvelinin gurresinde Şâm, 1134 rebiülâhir gurresinde Mısır, 1137 muharremi gurresinde Bursa [152] ve 1141 muharremi gurresinde Mekke-i Mükerreme mollası ve 1143 muharreminde İstanbul kadısı oldu.
Sene-i mezbûre rebiülevvelinde zuhûr eden Patrona Halîl vak’a-i hâ’ilesinde bi’z-zarûre ma’zûl ve Anadolu kazaskeriliği pâyesiyle tekâ’üd olup Amasya kazâsı arpalık verildi. 1148 senesi evâ’ilinde Şeyhülislâm Merzifonî eş-Şeyh Dürrî Mehmed Efendi’nin himmetiyle Anadolu kazaskeri oldu.
1149’da müddet-i örfiyesinin ikmâli üzerine munfasıl ve yine Amasya kazasıyla mütekâ’id olduğu hâlde 1153 senesi rebiülevvelinin yirmi birinci günü vefât etdi. Üsküdâr’da medfûndur. Âlim, sahî, perhizkâr, âlî-himmet, ricâl-i ilmiyyedendir. Mahdûmları es-Seyyid Ahmed, Feyzullah, Mahmûd Efendilerdir. Dâmâdı Amasyalı Müftüzâde Yahyâ Efendi İstanbul kadısı olmuşdur.
Es-Seyyid Ahmed Efendi, Amasya nâibi olarak gelip hadâset-i sinnine binâen ba’zı ahvâl-ı nâ-be-câya cür’et eylediğinden azledilmişdi. Es-Seyyid Feyzullah Efendi, pederi tarafından kendi nâmına izâfeten pederinin tevellüd etdiği Şâmice Mahallesi’ndeki hânesi arsasına [153] güzel bir medrese ve kütübhâne ve önüne çeşme yaptırdı. Buranın masâlihine sekiz dükkân vakfetdi. Buraya “Feyziye Medresesi” adını verdi. Aşağı “Bakacak Medresesi” diye meşhûr oldu.
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Gevikzâde Mahmûd Pasha of Amasya. Because his father had gone from çavuşbaşı to beylerbeyi of Algiers, he became famous as "Paşazâde." In Istanbul he studied under Erzincanlı Müftüzâde Ali Efendi, one of the senior scholars, and became müderris in 1106 [1694-95].
After teaching for a long time and climbing the steps of the ilmiye madrasas, he became molla (kadı) of Damascus at the beginning of Rabiulevvel 1127 [1715], of Egypt at the beginning of Rabiulâhir 1134 [1722], of Bursa at the beginning of Muharram 1137 [1724], and of Mecca at the beginning of Muharram 1141 [1728], and in Muharram 1143 [1730] kadı of Istanbul.
In the Patrona Halil events that broke out in Rabiulevvel of the same year he was forcibly removed from office; he was retired with the rank of Anadolu kazasker and was given the kaza of Amasya as arpalık. At the beginning of 1148 [1735], through the efforts of Şeyhülislam Merzifonlu eş-Şeyh Dürrî Mehmed Efendi, he became Anadolu kazasker.
In 1149 [1736-37] he left when his term expired, and although retired again with the kaza of Amasya, he died on the twenty-first day of Rabiulevvel 1153 [1740]. He is buried in Üsküdar. He was a scholar, open-handed, abstinent, magnanimous, one of the men of the ilmiye. His sons were es-Seyyid Ahmed, Feyzullah and Mahmûd Efendi. His son-in-law Müftüzâde Yahyâ Efendi of Amasya became kadı of Istanbul.
Es-Seyyid Ahmed Efendi came as naib of Amasya and, being of a young age, dared to commit some improper acts and was dismissed. Es-Seyyid Feyzullah Efendi, in his father's name, had a fine madrasa, a library, and a fountain in front of it built on the plot of his father's house in the Şâmice quarter, where his father had been born. For their expenses he endowed eight shops. He gave this place the name "Feyziye Madrasa." In the lower [part] it became famous as the "Bakacak Madrasa."
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- sudûr: the senior scholars of the ilmiye
- müderris: teacher who gives lessons in a madrasa
- medâris-i ilmiyye: the ilmiye madrasas; the steps through which müderrises rose in order
- molla: kadı of a great city, a kadı of high rank
- kazasker: army judge; the kazaskers of Anatolia and Rumelia are among the highest ranks of the ilmiye
- arpalık: a place or office whose revenues are given in lieu of salary
- tekâ'üd: retirement
- munfasıl: having left office
- sahî: open-handed, generous
- perhîzkâr: abstinent in religious terms
- hadâset-i sinn: youth, youngness of age
- kütübhâne: library
Paşazâde İbrâhim Efendi
İbrâhim Efendi's career follows the classic ladder of the ilmiye class: professorship, then the kadıships of great cities such as Damascus, Egypt and Bursa and the mollaship of Mecca, and finally the kadıship of Istanbul and the post of Anadolu kazasker. That his kadıship of Istanbul began in Muharram 1143 and ended with the Patrona rebellion (the 1730 uprising that led to the deposition of Sultan Ahmed III) shows that his tenure was short. The same event appears in entry 164 of this volume as a turning point.
The complex of madrasa, library and fountain that Feyzullah Efendi had built in the Şâmice quarter shows that Amasya also expanded in the Ottoman period with new waqf buildings. No detail on the Feyziye or Bakacak Madrasa was found in the readable sources other than Hüsameddin; whether the building still stands today could not be determined. The meaning of the word "Aşağı" (lower) in the text is also uncertain; from which place or feature the name "Bakacak Madrasa" derives cannot be understood from the book.
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